Michelle Malkin notes how the left have moved the goalposts in light of the success of the Tea Parties this year:
Activists were derided as amateurs who couldn’t turn out a crowd. Then they were smeared as corporate shills. They were criticized for not having a coherent message. Then they were mocked for ideological single-mindedness. They are resented by professional strategists who accuse them of organizing empty protests that won’t translate into electoral gains. But the movement has given birth to a new generation of movers and shakers who have rejected establishment partisan politics for nimble, Internet-facilitated, issues-based advocacy.
The success of the Tea Party movement and its allies/successors shows that there’s no monopoly on “community organizing.”
You are the change we’ve been praying for.
The Gay Patriot blog notes another example of playing down the success of the DC Tea Party: “Yahoo! Ignores Million-Person Protest (for Freedom) on same page it Featured 150-Person Petition (against Cheney).”
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1. Steven Den Beste:I also vaguely remember that at one point they were challenged for dressing too well, and then later for not being dressed well enough.
Sep 12, 2009 - 4:42 pm 2. Donna:God Bless the protesters!!! I love their enthusiasm and their signs. They don’t look like a bunch of angry old white people to me. God Bless America!
Sep 12, 2009 - 5:12 pm 3. MarkJ:For the next march, I plan to carry my Ginormous Paper Mache Obama Puppet of Doom.
That’ll really make the Obamatons’ collective heads explode.
Sep 12, 2009 - 5:31 pm 4. Dan Reeder:Many of the marchers were older. I’m pretty sure most of them collect social security. They don’t want a government run health care option, but they are probably also using medicare. The marchers may have been enthusiastic, like the guy yelling on national TV, “Get the communists out of our government!”, but terribly misguided.
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